direct assessment

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectandassessment

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/
us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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assessment
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈses.mənt/
us
/əˈses.mənt/
the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something, or the judgment or decision that ...
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(Definition ofdirectandassessmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The assessment utilized was a self-report of preparedness rather than adirectassessmentof skills.
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This study was based on a family history method that likely would yield lower rates than the true rate based ondirectassessment.
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The last decade has witnessed exciting changes in our approach todirectassessment.
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Identifying mobility dysfunctions in elderly patients: standard neuromuscular examination ordirectassessment?
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Such a measure permits thedirectassessmentof the anticipated electoral consequences of a given campaign event.
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Moreover, adirectassessmentof the bipolar cells' intrinsic transfer properties is not yet available.
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This approach provides adirectassessmentof the temporal relationship between behavioral symptoms and institutionalization, simultaneously controlling for other potential risk factors.
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Thedirectassessmentof effective size requires measurement of many demographic parameters that are difficult to carry out in natural populations.
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These can be used to complementdirectassessmentor substitute whendirectassessmentis not possible.
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Another approach to pain measurement is to make adirectassessmentof the subjective pain state.
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The disadvantage is that nodirectassessmentof the effect of technological change is being made.
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The conclusion reached by some is that naming may be a "purer" measure of lexical access than lexical decision, providing a moredirectassessmentof this critical moment.
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Hemodynamic evaluation of the pulmonary vascular bed does not allow fordirectassessmentof vascular wall dynamics.
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Directassessmentof the aboveground biomass is strenuous; all trees must be felled and weighed in a small sample area, in order to parameterize a regression method.
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Second, when the imputation method was applied to individual patient utility values reported bydirectassessment, the results were very similar.
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Nodirectassessmenthas been made of the impact of the safety checks on the number of all-weather running tracks available for use.
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There has been nodirectassessmentof this kind.
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The three-quarters will only be paid where there is adirectassessmentof the individual.
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Not only diddirectassessmentreduce the number of hospital referrals, but it gave health care professionals on the island a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of psychiatric conditions.
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